The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-10-26
Notes and Opinions.

Notes and Opinions.
THE Minneapolis Tribune has dis
covered that it is unpopular to tell the
truth at all times.
MosT of the southern senators desert
their states and live in Washington
continuously after they are elected.
THE mugwumps were missing from
the democratic ratification meeting in
Boston last week, and consequently
there was less lying than usual.
THE republican national committee
will meet in Washington December Sth
to fix the date and place of the next
national republican convention.
Boston has an anarchist club. We
thought something dreadful would
happen to Boston after its city govern
ment had paid official honors to Sulli-
van, the slugger.
SIXTY per cent of the men of Dakota
are veteran Union soldiers. Little
wonder that the democratic house
doesn't want to admit such state into
the Union.-HarUord Post.
THE proper course for those foreign
ers who find after coming to this coun-
try that they don't like its Constitution,
its laws and its customs, is to go away
and leave it.-Sprinqfeld Union.
THE st. Johnsbury Republican has
incurred the displeasure of the II. Y.
by offering some facetious observa-
tions on the railroad question. The
Republican is to be congratulated.
SOME of the anti-Blaine papers show
a disposition to drop Lincoln and boom
Allison. With them it is anything to
beat Blaine. But Allison is a Blaine
man and Blaine is an Allison man.
HARPER's WEEKLY says: Should
the democrats be defeated in the
autumn elections in New York the
probability of Mr.. Blaine's nomination
next year would be greatly increased"
JUGwUMPs is the name applied to
the personal liberty people in New
York who propose to scratch the
names of candidates who do not favor
legislation for opening saloons on
Sunday.
AS to the place for holding the re-
publican national convention next year,
Chairman Jones says that Washington,
Saratoga, Philadelphia, Cincinnati and
Chicago have been suggested. The
date will probably be June Goth.
THE Caledonian is mistaken in class
ing the Greenfield Gazette Gan anti
Blaine paper in Massachusetts, as "a
staunch, dyed-in-the-wool republican
newspaper" 1t belongs to the same
class as the observation-disclosures kickers.
HENRY GEORGE knows how to make
the most of passing events in his
speeches. For instance, he caught his
Pittsburgh audience with a jolly tickle
when, in opening his address, he said
81 don't want to tell you when this
town was founded or what the popula-
ton is"
THE democratic and mugwump papers
are testing at Colonel Fred Grant in
the New York campaign because he
cannot make speeches. His distin-
guished father was afflicted with the
same inability, but we do not recollect
that it interfered at all with his useful
ss.-BoStOn Journal.
THE New York World recalls that in
1852, when General Winfield Scott was
candidate for the presidency, he made
a tour through several states and was
received with the widest enthusiasm
wherever he spoke. When the polls
closed on election day General Scott
had carried but four states.
AT a meeting of several hundred bar,
barians in Boston, Sunday, to express
sympathy with the Chicago anarchist
murderers, Mrs. Charlotte Smith al
legged that members of the United
States supreme court were guilty OF
immoral practices. This woman might
find congenial employment on the
Richford Gazette.
THE New York EUening Post advises
the mugwumps not to form an indie
pendent political party and thus sub
ject themselves to an estimate of thei
actual numerical strength. The Pos
evidently thinks it better for the aver
age mugwump to be like the farmers
chicken, which ran so fast this wa,
and the other that he was unable t
count it.-MancheSter Mirror.
THE New York Graphic, which die
effective service for Cleveland in 1884
has been purchased by a syndicate o
wealthy republicans, including Senate